Bmused
The A330s and 777s certainly were direct competitiors when the 777 was launched. Most of the posts on this thread talk about 777 ERs and LRs, but these are developments and not the original versions.
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'I've never heard of an airline looking for fleet expansion/renewal and trying to decide between the both.'
One example is CAL a few years ago, there are more.
MarkD:
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'The real disaster is A345 - ETOPS is killing this one and not slowly either.'
Ccare to enlighten us how ETOPS can kill a four-engine aircraft?